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01-01-2012 | Letter to the Editor

Reply to the letter by Yucel Üstündağ et al. regarding “Endoscopic nasobiliary drainage is most suitable for preoperative management in patients with hilar cholangiocarcinoma”

Authors: Hiroshi Kawakami, Masaki Kuwatani, Eiichi Tanaka, Satoshi Hirano

Published in: Journal of Gastroenterology | Issue 1/2012

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We appreciate the interest of Dr. Üstündağ and colleagues as well as their suggestions regarding our article [1]. Our study was a single-center observational study of 128 consecutive patients undergoing preoperative biliary drainage (PBD). No definite criteria or guidelines outlining indications for PBD are currently available. PBD is performed by either percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) or endoscopic biliary drainage (EBD) in patients with hilar cholangiocarcinoma (HCA). To date, no report has compared PTBD with either endoscopic nasobiliary drainage (ENBD) or endoscopic biliary stenting (EBS), as PBD methods in patients with HCA. Our results were reported previously [1]. …

Kawakami H, Kuwatani M, Onodera M, Haba S, Eto K, Ehira N, et al. Endoscopic nasobiliary drainage is the most suitable preoperative biliary drainage method in the management of patients with hilar cholangiocarcinoma. J Gastroenterol. 2011;46:242–8.PubMedCrossRef

Takahashi Y, Nagino M, Nishio H, Ebata T, Igami T, Nimura Y. Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage catheter tract recurrence in cholangiocarcinoma. Br J Surg. 2010;97(12):1860–6.PubMedCrossRef

Kawakami H, Kondo S, Kuwatani M, Yamato H, Ehira N, Kudo T, et al. Preoperative biliary drainage for hilar cholangiocarcinoma: which stent should be selected? J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Sci. 2011;18(5):630–5.PubMedCrossRef

Title: Reply to the letter by Yucel Üstündağ et al. regarding “Endoscopic nasobiliary drainage is most suitable for preoperative management in patients with hilar cholangiocarcinoma”
Authors: Hiroshi Kawakami
Masaki Kuwatani
Eiichi Tanaka
Satoshi Hirano
Publication date: 01-01-2012
Publisher: Springer Japan
Published in: Journal of Gastroenterology / Issue 1/2012
Print ISSN: 0944-1174
Electronic ISSN: 1435-5922
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00535-011-0497-4

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